Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Our commitment to protecting your privacy is paramount to Chora Chori and this Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use information about people who visit our website, donate to us or correspond with us in any way.

Personal information and email addresses

We will only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide, for example when you send us a donation or or write to us. Where you contact us directly you do so at your own discretion and you provide any personal details requested at your own risk. We may also receive information about you from a third party such as a friend or colleague who refers you to our website. Names and addresses are also collected from online fundraising platforms (e.g. BT MyDonate) but only when the donor ticks the box to indicate that they wish to hear further from the charity. ChoraChori will only use your details to keep you informed about our work, including fundraising.

Email requests for any specific information will only be retained for the period needed to respond to the request. Personal details contained in these emails will not be retained unless you have specifically consented to this and where they are retained they will be stored securely.

We promise not to sell your details to anyone else. You will be provided with an opportunity to opt out of all or any of these uses.

Financial Information

We will only collect financial information in order to process financial transactions such as debit/credit card donations. We will not retain your financial details in our database.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to help you in your interactions with the site. Most cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. No personally identifiable data is collected. Examples of these include the last search term used or your perferences in terms of accessible viewing options. The use of cookies does not give us access to your personal computer or any information about you.

Certain cookies are persistent, meaning that they last beyond your session such as an option to remember a username .

Third Party Content

From time to time we may embed external content from third- party websites (e.g.Facebook,You Tube etc) within our website. These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third parties will be that published on the website of that third-party content provider.

ChoraChori’s website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platorm (e.g. Facebook etc). Users are advised that they use these at their own discretion and that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page through your social media platform account.

Confidentiality

We do not sell or pass on personal details to any other person or organisation unless we are legally required to do so for example for auditing of gift aid donors by HMRC. No database information is shared with our project partners without prior permission.

Security

We use our best efforts to keep the data that we hold secure and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and regularly review our data policies. All data is transmitted to our site at your own risk.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

Further Information

If you require any further information about our privacy policy please contact